A Newman-Penrose calculator for instanton metrics

Tolga Birkandan

doi:10.1142/S0129183108012807

A Newman-Penrose calculator for instanton metrics

Tolga Birkandan^*

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Department of Physics Engineering

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Abstract

We present a Maple11+GRTensorII based symbolic calculator for instanton metrics using NewmanPenrose formalism. Gravitational instantons are exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations with Euclidean signature. The NewmanPenrose formalism, which supplies a toolbox for studying the exact solutions of Einstein's field equations, was adopted to the instanton case and our code translates it for the computational use.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1277-1290
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Modern Physics C
Volume	19
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183108012807
Publication status	Published - Aug 2008

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The author would like to express his sincere thanks to Prof. Mahmut Horta¸csu for help and support and Profs. Ay¸se H. Bilge and Ne¸se Özdemir for scientific assistance and Fuat İ. Vardarlı for technical assistance throughout this work. This work is supported by TUBITAK, the Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey.

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TUBITAK

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Gravitational instantons
Newman-Penrose formalism
Symbolic computation

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